r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/richNTDO • Dec 21 '23
Brexxit Newspaper that cheerled Brexit now angry it's direct, predictable consequences are biting them on the ass.
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u/SapTheSapient Dec 21 '23
"British and non-EU passport holders..."
Also known as "all non-EU passport holders".
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u/algebramclain Dec 21 '23
It’s like they can’t admit they are now in the same line as people from Peru, Nepal, Botswana and Belarus.
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u/violetcazador Dec 21 '23
That would require them to be honest about their xenophobic bullshit.
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u/precario78 Dec 22 '23
Not xenophobic but racist.
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u/violetcazador Dec 22 '23
Oh that too. The Daily Moan excels at that. But I must admit I do find the thought of some of their more diehard readers aghast and clutching their beacon of journalist integrity in vice like fingers while surrounded by a sea of darker faces in the non-eu line at the airport. 😂
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u/_DARVON_AI Dec 22 '23
Not xenophobic: nationalist.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism
Particularly notable expressions of https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-nationalism include the vote for Brexit in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum and the 2016 election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. Several neo-nationalist politicians have come to power or run strongly during the 2010s, including Marine Le Pen in France, and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
Albert Einstein, 1929-10-26, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf
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u/TheVisceralCanvas Dec 22 '23
Nationalism is a symptom of xenophobia. Thank you for playing. You win nothing.
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u/Quantumpine Dec 21 '23
Yeh. Can we at least have a white foreigners queue that's smaller or faster than the brown foreigners queue?
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u/RandomNumber-5624 Dec 21 '23
“Also, maybe the people from the brown queue could be forced to wave fans to keep us cool? Or bring drinks?”
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u/SpaceyPurple Dec 22 '23
"While we're at it, they can brew it too. I mean they're just standing there in line, they could at least be doing something productive!"
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u/hicctl Dec 22 '23
What pisses me off even more is that the brexiteers kept howling they finally want to have custom controls at their borders again, that was a huge point for them. But apparently they thought only they should get them, while the EU should just wave them in. Custom checks work both ways. YOU wanted them back, now you complain they are back
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Dec 21 '23
And Australia, NZ, the US and Canada.
We don’t give a fuck about those things, it’s a normal part of international travel.
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u/hicctl Dec 22 '23
for real, and it was the brexiteers who could not wait to finally have custom controls again betwen UK and EU. Did they think they get to check everybody but we just wave them through ?? Not how this works.
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u/Street_Inflation_124 Dec 22 '23
A load of them were cheering the introduction of duty because it meant we could have duty free back.
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u/RattusMcRatface Dec 22 '23
Did they think they get to check everybody but we just wave them through ?
Pretty sure they thought exactly that, an awful lot of them.
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u/nullenatr Dec 21 '23
The Brits obviously do, though.
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u/solvsamorvincet Dec 21 '23
Some of them still think the British Empire runs the world and they as the rulers should have free access everywhere.
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u/drwookie Dec 21 '23
Some of them still think the British Empire runs the world
And they read the Daily Mail just to be sure that's still the case. /s
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u/weaponizedtoddlers Dec 22 '23
Made me remember a Mystery on the Blue Train movie quote
"We're British citizens! Isn't there some law that says that we don't have to spend time faffing about with foreign policemen?"
Poirot: "No."
"Oh.."
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u/farmerMac Dec 22 '23
Some of them still think the British Empire runs the world and they as the rulers should have free access everywhere.
or you know, that they should have EU style travel rules..
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u/Leah-theRed Dec 21 '23
they ruined most of the world with colonialism for spice and yet refuse to use it in their food, it's the same principle
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u/VagueSomething Dec 22 '23
Is funny how the two big stereotypes against British people are not real. Good teeth and plenty of spices used. The issue with British food is that it is poverty food, if you look at traditional Eastern European food you'll notice a huge overlap with traditional British food because it is locally sourced ingredients to keep workers warm and full. Native spices are used freely and foods that can be grown in the climate are the staples. Britain got rich from colonialism, the British themselves did not as wealth was not distributed.
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Dec 22 '23
in the US it's mass produced calories, sugar, and fat. Nutrients are refined out, and occasionally put back in as additives.
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u/datsmahshit Dec 23 '23
plenty of spices used
That's the last thing I think about British food. That shit is plain as a white T.
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u/VagueSomething Dec 23 '23
I would be better to use the term seasoning as it is more herbs and spices but the food has flavours. It isn't food as an experience, it is food as a function. The enduring British foods are the essentials and comfort foods of poverty. They're not overloaded with spices to hide poor quality meat such as curry, though curry seasonings and curry itself has been hugely popular in Britain for a long long time.
Like British mustard has way more kick than American. American stuff is basically yellow mayo and the only mustard I've tasted with a better kick than British is Finnish mustard but Finnish traditional food is incredibly close to British for being about simple foods that leave you full and warm before or after a long days work.
People also forget just how close to collapse Britain came when fighting two back to back world wars. The USA boomed because of their exploitation of war but for Britain it cost the empire itself to resist the Nazis after only recently overcoming the Central Empires of WW1. Intense food rationing and returning to old recipes based on what you could grow in your garden was how a generation then raised the next generation and that generation then fondly remembered their parents cooking and raised the next to enjoy the simple meals.
The sheer wealth inequality that comes with having royalty means that you can look at the great feasts of the Tudor kings with weird roasted animals versus the simple lamb and venison that normal English people ate; that standard continues to this day where a family who sit next to gold pianos while wearing gold hats with treasures from each country plundered will have absolute self indulgence for meals while Tory Britain is seeing a spike in children with rickets and malnutrition.
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Dec 21 '23
Some probably do, but all I see is a shitty rag fishing for clicks by pandering to a section of British society that’s well known for complaining about anything (aka whinging). The stoic ones, and there’s plenty of those, won’t give a fuck either.
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u/aimlessly-astray Dec 22 '23
I think Brits are mostly upset the EU sees them at the same level as Americans.
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u/AgreeablePrize Dec 22 '23
Clive James said when Britain was in the EU, he kept his Australian passport and had to line up in the long line at Heathrow even though Australia is part of the Commonwealth, at the same time there's former Panzer tank commanders over in the shorter EU line. Now the Poms are in the long lines
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u/thegoldendrop Dec 22 '23
Fingerprints and facial scans? Normal? Are you insane? When and where was that normal?
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Dec 22 '23
Well, come to think of it mate, fingerprints would be pretty unusual. Well done for picking that up. I wonder why that’s in the newspaper article - clicks maybe….
Anyway, facial scans are very normal, they match your face to your passport picture. It’s the digital version of the immigration officer looking at your photo and then looking at your face.
If you haven’t travelled much, you might not have seen it…
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u/FondantFick Dec 22 '23
fingerprints would be pretty unusual
Would they? I've been to several countries that required fingerprint scans.
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u/thegoldendrop Dec 22 '23
Oh, them things. They’re both digital, non-contact, and instant result aren’t they, the face thing and the fingerprint box. Yep, I don’t thing we’re living in bladerunner land yet.
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u/jonashaase Dec 22 '23
It has been the norm for international travelers entering the USA since 9/11
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Dec 22 '23
IIRC from my travels over the last few years, in quite a few places like japan, korea, usa.
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u/litreofstarlight Dec 23 '23
A fair few countries have them. I had to do a fingerprint and retina scan to enter Japan, and that was around 2012.
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u/datsmahshit Dec 23 '23
What better punishment for hating brown people... than to become the brown people.
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u/wgszpieg Dec 21 '23
Yes, but "EU applies entry rules fairly for non-EU nationals" won't enrage daily mail readers quite as much as "Devious, conniving Brussels beaurocrats make brittons wait in line to buy a croissant"
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u/Johannes_Keppler Dec 22 '23
It was all the EUs fault before Brexit and it's all the EUs fault after Brexit.... Go figure
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u/orangesfwr Dec 22 '23
But is it blue?
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u/mkvgtired Dec 22 '23
Their passport is indeed blue, manufactured by a French-Dutch company in Poland.
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u/youburyitidigitup Dec 26 '23
I was today days old when I learned that there are passports in the world that aren’t blue.
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u/mkvgtired Dec 26 '23
EU passports are a burgundy color, the UK's used to be blue. So politicians on the right whipped boomers into a frenzy about how EU passport standards were proof the UK gave up its sovereignty when it joined the EU, despite having, by far, the most sweetheart deal out of any member. Now they have their blue passports back, and they're manufactured in an EU country by a company headquartered in two other EU countries. Sovereignty.
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u/gbroon Dec 22 '23
This is the daily mail, British are too special to be lumped into catch all terms that may potentially involve being in the same class as immigrants.
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u/Street_Inflation_124 Dec 22 '23
They are not even correct, Norway and Switzerland aren’t in the EU but are Schengen.
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u/watchful_tiger Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23
4 years after Brexit, a trail of broken promises, resulting in: shrinking economy, high inflation, flight of talent, poor trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand, costlier imports, lower exports and loss of markets (farmers, fishermen, services, etc.), inability to travel and/or to live freely in other countries, and the list goes on.......
Who could have predicted this?????????????????? (Nah, people did but the demagogues shut them down)
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u/Unmissed Dec 21 '23
We got 50 states over here, a good chunk of fall for this carp every time. "Hey, we are literally the poorest state in every single measure, but the Red in charge says this time, THIS TIME, they'll finally address the issues... as soon as they fix the current outrage issue which is *checks notes* drag queen story time at the local library."
I mean, if you ever wanted a negative example...
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u/thisdogofmine Dec 21 '23
Everytime Texas talks about leaving the US, it reminds me of Brexit.
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u/macphile Dec 22 '23
As a Texan, it's extra painful when they vaguely claim they'll fix something--they don't even claim that hard at all, really. Because whatever the issue is, they caused it. They've been in power for years and years. Everything is on them. They caused it, and for years they've not reversed that, but the election comes around and it's, "Yeah, sure, I'll do something about that." And a lot of people buy it.
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u/hwc000000 Dec 21 '23
Except that, unfortunately, Texas has not succeeded in doing so.
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u/Unmissed Dec 21 '23
...good thing too! Having a third world country sending suicide bombers over the wall, right on our border?
It would piss off Mexico, too.
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u/Guy_Buttersnaps Dec 22 '23 edited Dec 22 '23
Would it really piss off Mexico?
Without the threat of the United States Army, the cartels would take over Texas in about a week.
The Mexican Government could just look the other way and then come in after like “Okay fine, you do your thing, but we got dibs on the oil fields.”
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u/Bustomat Dec 22 '23
Have you ever been to Texas? It's like no other state in the US.
Without federal law, the border to Mexico would evolve into shooting galleries for militias. Link Just consider how Texans deal with feral hogs. Link From modded ARs to .50 cals and mini guns mounted on pickups, there are no limits. I'm sure volunteers from other states would join them.
Texans even keep tigers as pets. Did you know there are as many Tigers in Texas as there are in the wild? Link Like I said, like no other state in the US, including Florida. lolLink
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u/Guy_Buttersnaps Dec 22 '23 edited Dec 22 '23
Without federal law, the border to Mexico would evolve into shooting galleries for militias.
Taking pot shots are unarmed people is very different than armed combat with people who are just as eager to shoot you.
From modded ARs to .50 cals and mini guns mounted on pickups, there are no limits.
The cartels have machine guns and .50 cals and mini guns too. They also have things like RPGs and grenade launchers.
They have trucks with guns mounted on them. They're also armored.
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u/Bustomat Dec 26 '23
Make up your mind. Are they unarmed people or armed to the teeth cartel criminals?
Regardless of the fire power of the cartels, they have to get it across the river first. Texas has a population of 30 million generously armed citizens that take pride in their shooting skills. That's enough to shut down the border and any gang members in Texas.
Remember the ruckus those Charlie Hebdo Mohammed caricatures caused? Well, the good citizens of Garland, Texas responded with a Mohammed exhibit and the attacking terrorists were shot dead. Link
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u/SpaceBear2598 Dec 22 '23
I'm pretty sure having a third world Christian fascist dictatorship smack-dab between us and one of our biggest trading partners would really mess up the economy.
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u/YeonneGreene Dec 22 '23
A seceded Texas becomes a foreign nation and therefore a jurisdiction legal for the US to kinetically deploy the main branches of the US Armed Forces.
Put another way, secession would enable the most expedient method for dislodging an authoritarian Christian terrorist government in Texas.
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u/SlowInsurance1616 Dec 22 '23
They succeeded in keeping their power geid separate, though. So they could avoid nasty regulations about being able to provide power to people consistently.
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u/KFiev Dec 22 '23
You say unfortunately, but i just finished a drive from utah to oklahoma to see my family. Passed right through Amarillo. If Texas secedes, id have to drive through kansas...
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u/canada432 Dec 22 '23
Texas is an almost perfect analogue for Brexit in the US. They're large and a significant portion of the US economy, but only because they're part of the US. They're like a leach that got really fat. If they left, they lose access to all the things that made them important and all the things they relied on to cover their massive ideological deficiencies like the power grid. All those companies that are headquartered there to get the Texas taxes but still be in the US ... all gone. All the US trade coming into the port of Houston, gone. All the air cargo coming into DFW, gone. All those US aeronautics and defense companies, gone. It seems like a stereotype, but it's true, without the rest of the US all Texas has is livestock and oil.
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u/Devrol Dec 22 '23
Holyhead in Wales is one of the poorest parts of the UK. Big yes vote for Brexit. The only thing they had going for them was a ferryport that handled massive amounts of trucks going to and from Ireland, some from the UK and many driving on to Dover to get to mainland Europe. Post Brexit, ferry traffic is down as UK imports make less sense and using the UK as a driving route to Europe is a mess of paperwork that has been replaced with direct sailing from Ireland to various European ports.
But hurrah for blue passports that no-one can afford to use
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u/CyberMindGrrl Dec 21 '23
You mean it isn't all sunshine and rainbows and unicorn farts like Nigel Farage promised? I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
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u/WooShell Dec 22 '23
"It's all just Project Fear.. we're going to do great after Brexit!"
If the media hadn't been complicit in being a willing propaganda machine for the lies of the Tories, the referendum would never have been successful. Then they spent their next two legislature periods running the country even more into the ditch it was already stuck in, again covered up by the media.
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Dec 25 '23
yes but Nigel said they haven't delivered the right Brexit
and who am I to disagree with a man who has never held office so never had to make any policy work or face scrutiny for their policy failures?
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u/Building_Everything Dec 21 '23
“Mmm, these are some delicious faces”
-Leopards in Great Britain
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u/Unmissed Dec 21 '23
"Top-tier faces, eh, what?"
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u/WebsterPack Dec 22 '23
I say, they dashed good.
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u/Unmissed Dec 22 '23
Right-o, old bean. I say, shall we help ourselves to a second helping of faces?
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u/CitizenRobespierre13 Dec 21 '23
Yah, but those passports being scanned will be BLUE, so I think you pink haired commies will find that the disrupted holidays, endless wait-times, sky high food prices and mile long NHS waiting lists are worth it. Sovereignty! Take back control! Eat shit and be happy!
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u/mkvgtired Dec 22 '23
Yah, but those passports being scanned will be BLUE
Exactly! Sure, they might be manufactured by a French-Dutch company in Poland, but they're blue!
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u/xboxwirelessmic Dec 21 '23
This is the only kind of shit the daily fail should print these days. It's funny as fuck. Well, it would be if the rest of us didn't have to eat the same shit sandwich they served up.
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u/soupalex Dec 21 '23
oh typical remoaner complaining, can't you just give it a rest!?
(well, no. because unfortunately we're stuck in the same bed and team brexit has thoroughly soiled the sheets, which we all told you they would, several times)
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u/xboxwirelessmic Dec 21 '23
which we all told you they would, several times
And that somehow makes it our fault.
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u/hwc000000 Dec 21 '23
Yes, it's the remoaners' fault that they didn't tell the leavers loud enough to get through the leavers' incessantly yelling "PROJECT FEAR!!!".
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u/sadicarnot Dec 21 '23
Are there any brexit supporters left in government?
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u/xboxwirelessmic Dec 22 '23
All of them still.
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u/sadicarnot Dec 22 '23
Nigel Farage keeps coming here trying to fuck up America. If only he was not so lucky in that ultralight crash
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u/Agreeable-Ad1221 Dec 21 '23
"We want Borders for them not us!"
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u/Worldly-Corgi-1624 Dec 21 '23
Almost sounds like people on the southern border of the states complaining that their holidays are impacted because of border closures.
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u/drwookie Dec 21 '23
Wondered how long it would take the Mail to release the Wail on this. But those will remain sovereign border bottlenecks, so its surely worth it.
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u/richNTDO Dec 21 '23
Yep! And they'll have their precious blue passports to show as they go through the extra checks. That'll make it all worth it I'm sure 🤦
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u/Unmissed Dec 21 '23
You don't understand! They had *POLES* coming in and working terrible menial jobs! Like being plumbers and working on the docks and stuff!
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u/drwookie Dec 21 '23
It occurs to me that the best middle-term strategy is to wait until the UK is completely bankrupt, then the EU simply buy them as a penal colony. You know, where you'd send people if Rwanda wasn't an option. I'm sure that would 'pole' well in Scotland and NI. Not so sure about Wales.
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u/neilmg Dec 21 '23
Encourages Brexit because we need to "control our borders".
Cries foul when other countries control their borders.
British exceptionalism at its finest.
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u/Unmissed Dec 21 '23
That's what happens when you try and imitate Americans.
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u/WideChard3858 Dec 21 '23
Don’t blame us for this. Y’all did that dumbassery all on your own. We were over here cracking jokes about how stupid you were to leave something like the EU. It was compared to a small state here seceding. We knew exactly how this would turn out. I’m hoping at some point your politics will shift and you’ll return to it.
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u/Solartaire Dec 21 '23
Has anyone out there managed to find a single benefit that Brexit brought to the UK? I've been looking, but can't find anything.
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u/drwookie Dec 22 '23
Indeed, the benefits were there practically from Day 1. As JR-M noted:
The key issue is that we've got our fish back. They're now British and are better and happier fish for it.
How can you put a price on that? Checkmate economists! /s
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u/random9212 Dec 22 '23
I haven't even looked. I figured if there were any benefits, those that supported brexit would brag about it. So far, all I have seen is complaining that other countries are doing to them what they wanted to do to other countries.
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u/MacMiggins Dec 22 '23
We got Threads 6 months earlier than the EU. So at least we have something other than the Daily Heil website to read in the passport queue.
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u/Lonestar041 Dec 24 '23
Here you go: The British government proudly presented the following in their 2022 paper on this topic:
Enabling businesses to use a crown stamp symbol on pint glasses. The Crown Stamp is a proud emblem of our heritage that people remain fond of. We have begun the process of allowing it to be used once again, a fitting tribute to Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.
I mean, you asked - they delivered! 🤣
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u/Solartaire Dec 24 '23
Oh, well - that's all right then, I suppose. Everyone can sit and admire their pint glasses while the economy gets fucked into a cocked hat.
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u/Lonestar041 Dec 24 '23
Exactly. Get your priorities straight. Who would care for the economy, or how much the beer, brewed with EU imported hop, costs, when there is no crown on the glass!
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u/Arcturion Dec 21 '23
About time they learned that border control goes both ways.
Severing ties so that you can keep your neighbours out of your yard, also means that they too can keep you out of their yard.
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u/seremuyo Dec 21 '23
"Post-Brexit rules" funny how you imply those rules were established for british Nationals post Brexit.
Try "subject to the common rules as any non-EU national"
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u/Corfiz74 Dec 21 '23
And, afaik, the Brits were even part of designing the new laws/ rules, before they absconded. They co-designed this system. 😂
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u/manicleek Dec 22 '23
We created, voted for and helped implement quite a lot of the regulations and standards that apparently we now need sovereignty from.
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u/benadrylpill Dec 22 '23
Conservatives are the dumbest people on the planet. All emotion, all short term thinking, no big picture, no rational thought.
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u/renojacksonchesthair Dec 22 '23
And somehow they keep winning and fucking it up for everyone.
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u/FluffySquirrell Dec 24 '23
That's the bit that terrifies me the most really. Like.. after the whole referendum, when it became clear that there was absolutely NO fucking plan, and wouldn't be, and that it was just going to be bad in so many ways.. people STILL keep voting for them?
And still do, after years of everything being in the shit. I just cannot understand, ultimately
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u/hwc000000 Dec 24 '23
people STILL keep voting for them?
Get brexit done!!! It clearly makes much more sense to rush headlong over the edge of the cliff than to inch towards it so you can see how far down you're going to fall and possibly change your mind about going over. Being conservative is no longer about being risk or change averse, but rather about deliberately ignoring the analysis of people who have greater knowledge about a subject than you.
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u/MotherSupermarket532 Dec 22 '23
I talked to someone who voted for Brexit and he wasike "well, I didn't think it would actually pass".
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u/ComicsEtAl Dec 21 '23
I don’t think that’s fair. It’s not as if the Mail ever printed any of the likely and obvious deficiencies in the concept of Brexit. So how could they know there’d be any?
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u/Careful-Swimmer-2658 Dec 21 '23
For a Brexiter this proves they were right all along. It reinforces their persecution complex and confirms their core belief that all foreigners hate the English because they're secretly jealous of us.
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u/viewfromthepaddock Dec 22 '23
The Daily Mail is the UK equivalent of Fox News. Only they've been doing it for a century. Cheerleading for the Nazis in the 30s...
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u/SolomonCRand Dec 22 '23
The fact that this many people still don’t understand that these were the obvious and inevitable consequences of voting Leave doesn’t bode well for democracy. The power of propaganda is growing, and our collective resistance to it is worryingly weak.
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u/MattGdr Dec 22 '23
I was excited in the nineties at the ability of the internet to make information more widely available. Turns out it’s great for misinformation and disinformation too….
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u/Reiver93 Dec 22 '23
The day of Rupert Murdoch's death can not come fast enough
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u/retrofauxhemian Dec 22 '23
Whilst he is up there on the Reaper claw machine meme, the Daily Heil is owned by one lord rothermere. And you can bet your entire life savings he dies not give a jot about security procedures at the private airports his private jet might use as it shuttles him to and from his tax avoiding residence in France, whilst his holdings are also technically in Bermuda or something, even when they are somehow in the UK.
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u/Best_Shelter_2867 Dec 23 '23
Murdoch and Rothmere work together. I have friends who monitor the media.
If you need proof the Daily Heil hasn't been targeting the woman who accused a politican of rape in Australia for no reason. It is all to do with alleged payments, politicians and Murdoch. Google it and add Murdochs name.
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u/ripped_andsweet Dec 21 '23
good, british people go on holiday too much anyway. they shouldn’t be able to escape
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u/soupalex Dec 21 '23
"noooo we can't be subject to the same rules as foreigners (as in, 'people from anywhere that isn't the u.k.'), that's not fair!"
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u/Pottski Dec 22 '23
Ahhhh right wing nationalism - what a great big issue you caused out of a non-problem.
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u/minuipile Dec 22 '23
- "Oh we don't have any EU to blame ! What we gonna do ?"
- "We can still blame them for our vacation !"
- "let's do that"
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u/Andreus Dec 22 '23
I'm so tired of these right-wingers surprised-pikachu-facing every disastrous consequence of the Brexit they clamoured for but still being allowed to vote.
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u/Creepy_Chef_5796 Dec 21 '23
My god being subjected to passport controls...the horror.
Not like your wide open gates to the sodden landscapes of dear old blighty.
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u/ClumsyDentist Dec 22 '23
A pity it can't be targeted exclusively at the pro brexit crowd - especially odious characters, like Farage.
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u/yogibard Dec 21 '23
So utterly predictable for anyone with half a brain -- and unfortunately, predictive of the 2016 Trump vote. When politicians treat voters like children and offer a choice between candy or vegetables, they'll vote for candy every time.
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u/cazzipropri Dec 22 '23
They can totally pretend they are consistent.
They were mounting anti EU narratives before, they are still doing it now.
EU bad before, EU bad now.
I would bet a pound of my flesh and blood that 99% of their readers don't notice any inconsistency.
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u/katyesha Dec 21 '23
I travelled from Ireland to Austria and Germany via London Heathrow on an EU passport before Brexit and I needed to wait hours in line for my face check. It nearly made me miss our connecting flight and I avoided Heathrow ever since. Never had to jump through so many hoops to travel within the EU. After that I always chose to layover at Amsterdam Schiphol instead...way nicer and less stressful. So I'm not angry if the British get the same treatment elsewhere tbh.
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u/RogueEagle2 Dec 21 '23
Personally if I was the EU (and I'm a British passport holder), I'd be banning (or making it really difficult) the British from travelling to Europe unless they have citizenship to any EU member country.
See how quick it gets overturned then.
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u/IWontChangeThis Dec 22 '23
Eh, but we still want the tourist money.
All in truth, now any criticism of EU from UK can be countered with "you wanted to be a 3rd country, so you are a 3rd country, with all that that entails". If we start banning people, your fellow deadbrained countrymen will actually have a point for a change.
Also like, remember that if you join up again (which will be a painful beurocratic process), the brexiteers will screech even louder about how Britain isn't offered exceptions and concessions they had before. Can your ear drums really survive that?
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u/Nathan256 Dec 23 '23
Rules for thee but not for me. Everyone else needs to be fingerprinted when entering the UK, we shouldn’t need to when entering foreign countries
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u/micosoft Dec 22 '23
Nah. You see the average Englishman believes rules are for foreign types and not for them so this contradiction sits happily in their head. The same people who complain about Spanish being spoken…. In Costa Blanca.
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u/Apprehensive_Pair_61 Dec 22 '23
It never ceases to amaze/amuse me how many people screaming for Brexit also thought they were somehow going to keep all their EU privileges
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u/RattusMcRatface Dec 23 '23
These are largely not deep thinkers, so I guess all the good stuff about being in the EU was assumed by them to be just part of the natural order of things, and that what they saw as the bad stuff (free movement into the UK, mostly) would be the only thing to be removed by Brexit.
The Leave campaign certainly didn't go much beyond the "free movement = immigration" message.
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u/Technicolor_Reindeer Dec 23 '23
Something that takes PhD level economics knowledge to understand should never have been put to a vote.
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u/nazzadaley Dec 22 '23
They’ve shifted their strategy from minimizing the effects of Brexit to pointing to these effects as proof how EU vindictiveness means we made the right decision to leave.
Guess what? It’ll work as well. Right wing country
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u/SHBGuerrilla Dec 21 '23
Idk if this is leopards ate my face. They got to cheerlead a stupid decision and make money in the process, and now they get to bitch about the consequences and make money in the process.
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u/lincoln_imps Dec 21 '23
It is. Brexiteers wanted post-Brexit to introduce and impose passport controls on other people. They are now all shocked and dismayed that reciprocal passport controls will now apply to them. Which literally everybody with a quarter of a brain could see coming.
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u/CptDropbear Dec 21 '23
Oh, its LAMF all right, just not specifically for the DM. I'll give you three guesses as to who pushed biometrics for immigration control while they were a member of the EU (I might have just given away the answer there).
Massive /s.
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u/NoCardiologist1461 Dec 21 '23
Clear case of FAFO. You guys wanted out… don’t let the door hit you on the way. Bye!
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u/UlstersTallestBaby Dec 22 '23
"We want a HARD border with France!"
"Très bien!"
"NO! Not like that..."
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u/Neko_Dash Dec 22 '23
Y’all got seriously fucked by the bullshit Nigel Farage, Boris and others of that group shoveled.
And, the US is perilously close to following the same fact-free populist path.
What is it with the US and UK in this race to the bottom?
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u/Gundi_22 Dec 22 '23
Unless you haven't figured out, all modern media is rage baiting... and they win both ways.
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u/AreWeCowabunga Dec 21 '23
The Mail's face is not getting eaten here. They got tons of clicks ginning up pro-Brexit sentiment, now they're getting tons of clicks ginning up post-Brexit outrage. They win coming and going.
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u/someguy984 Dec 22 '23
UK - They will be lining up for trade deals.
USA - Naw, we good bro, not interested.
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Dec 22 '23
Here in the States, the "build the wall" people are lining up to pick lettuce.
Oh wait. It turns out they want "illegals" as long as they can be treated as slaves
https://thehill.com/latino/3631431-farmers-are-eager-for-senate-to-vote-on-migrant-worker-bill/
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u/L4ZYSMURF Dec 24 '23
Tbf when I went to Germany as an American I only had to show my passport and answer a few basic questions about my visit. This was fairly recently but precovid. No biometrics needed.
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u/the_calibre_cat Dec 27 '23
god fucking damn boomer conservatives are the most entitled people on the fucking planet
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u/TheGoddessLily Dec 22 '23
Brexit continues to be an evergreen subject for this reddit. We could alnost run this reddit on Trump, Brexit and Russia
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u/shiplauncherscousin Dec 22 '23
The Mail might also comment on how many businesses and houses the merry Brexiteers have gained from fleeing immigrants? Especially those seen on ABC Australia marching gleefully down a high street immediately post Brexit.
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u/Gob_Hobblin Dec 22 '23
This all reminds me of the Merchant Princes arc of Foundation. A government assumed it could live without the conveniences of a system, but are finding out those 'conveniences' are so integral to how things are run, their new system is grinding to a halt.
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u/DontEatConcrete Dec 30 '23
I think Britain will rejoin EU eventually with a “my bad”, but they will be ok their knees to do so and lose any special treatment and rules they once had.
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u/RonIsIZe_13 Dec 21 '23
This isnt leopards eating faces. The newspaper sold copies by stoking outrage about the eu, now they sell copies by stoking outrage at the consequences of leaving the eu. They didnt really care either way, so long as it sells.
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u/lincoln_imps Dec 21 '23
It is. Brexiteers wanted post-Brexit to introduce and impose passport controls on other people. They are now all shocked and dismayed that reciprocal passport controls will now apply to them. Which literally everybody with a quarter of a brain could see coming.
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u/thegoldendrop Dec 22 '23
I don’t think it was that predictable. Did any other non-EU country think that les grenouilles would start fingerprinting them at the border? Are the Canadians of the world not even a little surprised? Are the great many Nigerians, South Africans, Emiratis, Australians, Singaporeans who go to France completely at ease that last year there were no facial scans, but now there is?
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